Knockdown sheet-metal cracker can



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' Jan. 24, 1928.

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KNOCKDOW'ETSHEET-METAL CRACKER CAN.

Application filed June 16, 1924. Serial No. 720,252.

My present invention relates to knockdown sheet metal containers for crackers and like products and is in the nature of an improvement, or modification of the invention of my co-pending application, Serial No. 714,772, tiled May 21, 192 i. 1

As stated in said co-pending application; the general object of the invention therein described and claimed is to proviee a single shipment container for crackers and like food products which will not be subject to the disadvantages of the so-called tiber caddies ordinarily used for this purpose in the past. These disadvantages are; chiefly, the

' likelihood oi: the caddy. becoming crushed during handling and storing and the danger of mice and rats gaining access to the contents by chewing away portions of the fiber body when the container is stored in freight warehouses, or elsewhere. The present invention has the same general object and is directed particularly to the provision of certain features of advantage in the construction and arrangement of the parts.

These features relate to, first, the form and method of positioning the bottom member; second, the means of reinforcing and strengthening certain of the parts; and third, the type of cover which may be employed in conjunction with the other teatures of construction justmentioned.

Other objects and advantages oi the invention will be apparentas it is better understood from the following description, which, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, discloses a preferred embodiment thereof. a

. Referring to the drawings, a a t Figure 1 is a side View, partially in vcrtical section, of a sheet metal container constituting a preferred embodiment of the invention and showing the container assembled with the cover applied:

Fig. 2is a plan'view of the same with the cover removed; a i

Fig. 3 is-an enlarged detail horizontal section on line 3-3 ofl ig. 1-;

Fig. i is an enlarged detail vertical section on line d e of Fig. 1; c

Fig. 5 is a side elevation oi the knockdown container, showing the parts thereof nested within one another for storage or transportation purposes;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the cover;

Fig. 7 is a similar view of the removable bottom portion of the container;

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the unitary. body or wall sections; Fig. 9 is asimilar view of the other wall section in positionprior to its engagement with the section shown in Fig. .8; and

Fig. 10 is a detail perspective view of one of the corners. i

As shown in said drawings, the wall portions of the container are preferably two in number, and are indicated as land 2. The wall or body portion 1 consists of a sheet of metal bent at right angles to form an integral corner 15, and is provided atits side edges with integrally formed and outwardly curled or hooked flanges 3. The body sec tion lis provided at its upper portion with integrally inturned horizontal flanges t, and

atits lower portion with a reinforcing upwardly curled bead 5, which is* further adapted to support the removable bottom section as hereinafter described.

The wall or body section 2, like the section 1, is bent to form an integral corner 16, and at its side edgesthe section 2 is integrally. formed with the inwardly curled hooked flanges 6, adapted to cooperate with the outwardly curled flanges 3 of the memberl, when the container is assembled. The body section 2 is also provided with int grally formed, inwardly projecting horizontal flanges 7 at its upper portion, and an up wardly curled lower bead 8, similar tothe bead 5. a

In assembling the container, one of the body sections is lifted and slipped vertically into telescoping locking engagement with the other body section, and the oppositely curled or hooked side flanges of the two sections cooperate to form a tubular sliding joint (Figs. 9. and This sliding tubu lar joint results in a secure corner construction. By forming the body of the container of two sections l andQ, the assembled body is caused to maintain its shape, relative twisting movement of the sections is prevented by the integralcorners l5 and 16, and the assembled body is substantially square in horizontal section. 1

The bottom portion 9 is next inserted" into and downwardly between the assembled body sections, and, as best seen in Figs. 2

and 7', the bottom portion 9 consists of a side and end portions being formed with in- 10 ward curls, a bottom having edges which are bulged outwardly at their middles whereby to force outward the middle parts ofsaid side and end portions and draw inward the interlocked corners, and a cover fitting the top edge of said body.

JOHN M. HOTHERSALL. 

